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nyak

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *ńᴕkkɜ (neck).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɒk]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

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nyak (plural nyakak)

  1. (anatomy) neck (the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals)
  2. neck (the part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck)
  3. neck (the tapered part of a bottle toward the opening)
  4. (music) neck (the extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted)

Declension

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Possessive forms of nyak
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. nyakam nyakaim
2nd person sing. nyakad nyakaid
3rd person sing. nyaka nyakai
1st person plural nyakunk nyakaink
2nd person plural nyakatok nyakaitok
3rd person plural nyakuk nyakaik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #650 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ nyak in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • nyak in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.